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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Prayer request for Santa Rosa and Fr. Z makes observations
Last Saturday I was in the Diocese of Santa Rosa, in Napa Valley, CA, to speak at a conference. At one point I had noticed smoke plumes on the far sides of a large Eastern ridge. On Saturday evening the other … Read More
Esolen: “Open Your Eyes Father Martin”
I am usually eager to read anything penned by Anthony Esolen. But when I saw the title of Esolen’s newest offering at Crisis, I put everything aside: “Open Your Eyes Father Martin” Father James G. Martin, S.J., is either a cruel … Read More
FOLLOW UP: Massive Rosary Prayer in Poland and disdain from @MassimoFaggioli
I read with extreme delight about the massive Rosary rally in Poland, on 7 October – the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto and Feast of the Holy Rosary – to ring the entire 2000 mile border of the country … Read More
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Tagged Holy Rosary, Massimo Faggioli, Poland
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Asteroid 2012 TC4 will NOT strike your planet… they say.
From SPACEWEATHER: ASTEROID TO BUZZ EARTH THIS WEEK: When the sun rose over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, at first it seemed like an ordinary day. Then the space rock hit. Without warning, the morning sky lit up with a second … Read More
A great book for your celebration of Martin Luther!
As we approach LutherFest, I’d like to remind you all of a truly informative and engaging book. This collection of essays is helpful. Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society US HERE – … Read More
Concerning rumors of dramatic changes to the Extraordinary Form
I have had some questions about a rumor going around that dramatic changes are going to be imposed on the older, traditional Form of Roman Rite. Someone thinks that the new Lectionary and calendar will be imposed on the 1962 Missale … Read More
The recent Jesuit-run Boston College conference on ‘Amoris Laetitia’
The recent Jesuit-run Boston College conference on the reception of Amoris Laetitia in these USA seems to have been intended as a closed workshop on how to “struggle” (in the Cultural Revolution sense) against the Four Olds (in this case, Familiaris Consortio, … Read More
A “cri de coeur”: Fr Z responds with a strong suggestion.
I had a note, really a cri de coeur, from a reader who said that she feels as if she and other good and innocent people in the Church today are undergoing one terror attack after another against our Catholic … Read More
Boston College Amoris Laetitia Agitprop Workshop and Schrödinger’s Cat
I wrote about the first installment of coverage of the agitprop workshop going on at Boston College about issues concenring Amoris Laetitia. HERE It seems to me, having read something about the second round (including the talk about Jesuit Fr. … Read More
PODCAzT 157: Pius XII – Ingruentium malorum – On reciting the Rosary
National Catholic Register on 1 Oct 2017 had a terrific article which brought to my attention again an 1951 Encyclical of Pius XII 1951, Ingruentium malorum, on the recitation of the Rosary. The article by Joseph Pronechen is rightly called prophetic. As … Read More
Venerator Sti Lot on Wednesday of the Fast of the Seventh Month: “Thank you very much for this, and especially its illumination of the place of that (at first impression) astonishing Lesson…”
